Rationale: Letter recognition and
Phonemic awareness are both extremely important for students who are learning to
be good readers.Understanding the
relation between graphemes and its corresponding phoneme is often difficult for
beginning readers.This lesson will
help students recognize the letter p
and the sound that p makes.

Materials:

Kleenex tissue

Pencil

Chart paper

1 sheet of primary paper

Pworksheet

Poster of the letter P
made with popsicle sticks, popcorn, pennies and pigs.

1.
Today, we are going to practice writing
the lower case letter p and making the
p sound /p/.

2.
Can anyone come up to the chart paper
and show me what a lower case p looks like?Very good! This is a p.This is the correct way to write a p.
Start
at the fence, go straight down into the ditch, come up and put his chin on the
sidewalk.

3.
Now that we know how to write a p,
I would like to you all to practice writing a p the same way we just
practiced together 10 times on your primary paper.

4. Show students the poster
board of p's made with different things that start with p.
(pennies, popcorn, popsicle sticks, and pigs). Explain that these are all words
that start with p.

5.
Can anyone tell me what sound a p
makes? That's right! P says /p/. Everyone watch my lips.Pucker your lips and press them together and then blow out a sudden blast
of air.Very good!!

6.
Lets practicing making the /p/ sound.
Take the Kleenex on your desk and hold it with one hand in front of your mouth.
(Demonstrate the action). When you make the /p/ sound your tissue should fly up
because of the air you blow out.
Practice the sound and observe students to make sure their tissue is flying and
they are saying the sound correctly.

7.
Now we are going to read a tongue
tickler with the letter p!
Every time yousee the letter p
in the words say the sound very loud and stretch it out.
I will do it first to show you. Example, Ppppeter the pppig ppput
pppopppcorn in pppails.I will do
it with you. Have the students read it twice.Next, have them read the sentence with the /p/ sound into the tissue.

8.
Raise your hand when you hear p in the
following words, (Pig or dig) (park or word) (king or prince) (lift or pit)?

9.
Give students the worksheet where they
have to draw a line from the letter p to the objects that start with
the /p/ sound.

10. We will read aloud the
book If You Give a Pig a Pancake. Give a
short book talk. There is a pig
staying at the house and he says that all he wants is a pancake, but once he is
given a pancake he wants more and more! Lets read to find out what they do
to satisfy the pig and his cravings! Choose certain pages where the
students can read along emphasizing the p sound.

11.Assess students informally by watching for the ability to make the /p/
sound into the tissue, and put a check by the students name if they can.Students can also be assessed from their work on the worksheet.